Stuck Quotes - Page 2

• I've always been a firm believer in mind over matter. If you don't believe you can achieve, your body will start to believe this and you'll be stuck.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Basketball, Believe, Mind

  "Sheryl Swoopes' finishing move". Interview with Adena Andrews, www.espn.com. June 20, 2011.

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• I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various

  Irwin Shaw

  Style, Sticks, Formulas

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• The war won't be over until the last spammer's head is stuck onto a spear at the city limits.

  Paul Vixie

  War, Cities, Lasts

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• There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come.

  Petula Clark

  Thinking, Long, People

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• On the other hand when you are someone who records their own songs you are basically stuck writing for one voice and for one style that can stifle you a bit. It's a real trade off.

  Cynthia Weil

  Song, Real, Writing

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 22, 2002.

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• For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this idea is deep within your heart. As you calmly breathe in and out, picture it radiating from you like a fine, colored vapor gradually covering the face of the earth. See it enter the hearts of everyone, especially those stuck in the mad zones. Feel it circulate everywhere until it comes all the way round and back to you. This is love in action. The source of this love is the Tao. Savor this.

  Stephen Russell

  Heart, Love Is, Ideas

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Unhappy, Realizing, Situation

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• Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Prayer, Confused, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.68, Moody Publishers

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• An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

  Robbie Fowler

  Careers, Flattering

  Robbie Fowler (2009). “Fowler: My Autobiography”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists, so proud of the regime they constructed, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the army and half of the state on their side. On the other hand there are the conventional traditionalist, so infatuated with the Ottoman past, you cannot breathe a critical word. They've got the general public and the remaining half of the state on their side.

  Elif Safak

  Army, Past, Hands

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• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  Malin Akerman

  Requirements, Ruts, Life Is

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not here for me
  I am not here to promote my ego
  I am here to serve the Great Spirit
  To be a voice for those afraid to speak
  To be movement for those who are stuck
  I am here to reveal a mystery
  To learn something new about myself

  Holly Near

  Voice, Ego, Movement

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• My nickname is The Fonz. My sister Lori nicknamed me it when I was younger and it stuck.

  Nicole Appleton

  Nicknames, My Sister

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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• Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

  Nicholas Hope

  Heart, Swings, Dancing

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• The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Land, Soul, Hunters

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• My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Giving, Beggar

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• As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.

  Will Davis

  Christian, Spiritual, Growing Up

  Will Davis (2011). “10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them”, p.150, Revell

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• A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, People, Office

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 27, 2012

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• I was stuck for 16 months without a win there, and now I've had five this year. Once you break that barrier for yourself it makes it easier; you're not thinking about it... It opened up the floodgate for me.

  Kelly Slater

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-ered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Mother, Rain, Thinking

  Robinson Jeffers (1965). “Selected poems”, Vintage

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• Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Past, Feet

  Interview with Anthony Kiedis, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 29, 2010.

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• A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

  E. B. White

  Time, Writing, Men

  1975 Letter to Corona Macheiner, 11 Jun.

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• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

  Marty Meehan

  Senior, Drug, Confusing

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• Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dance, Beach

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 13, 2012

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• I was proud, excited and a little frightened. It was all taking off so quickly…the more successful the boys were, the further away from me John felt. I was getting used to being a mum, but most of the time I felt like a single parent…it was hard not to feel frustrated with being stuck at home. I loved Julian, but I knew that if I hadn’t had him I could have seen much more of John and that was hard…I felt shut off from the life he was living. After years at his side, I was excluded, just as it was all happening.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Home, Successful, Boys

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